We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.

You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.

Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.

Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.

This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity.

Israel has always been and must always be America's strongest ally.

The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all.